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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK A. herherata arc found annually at Bury, but Coremia propugnata is by no means common, and Camptogramma fuvtata has occurred once to Major Nurse in Bury, and once to the writer at light in Ipswich. The only uncommon Cidariae are C. psittacata and C. sagittata ; and Eubolia hipunctaraia is still doubtfully a Suffolk species ; E. lineolata and Chesias obliquaria are local ; and Lithtstege griseata is found in few British localities outside the Breck sands, where, however, it occurs somewhat freely. Owing to the smaller number of lepidopterists who are interested in the Micros our list of them is less complete, and species are still being constantly added to it by even superficial collectors ; this becomes very plain when we see that against thirteen additions to the Macros up to 1900 there are 116 among the smaller kinds since 1890. Among the Deltoides, Hypena crassalis and the two Hypenodes are distinctly rare ; the former is recorded, perhaps by mistake, at Brandeston by the Rev. Joseph Green, the two latter mainly at Beccles ; several of the Herminiae are also uncommon, as is the curious Aventia flexula, which, however, once occurred plentifully at Brandeston. Pyralis fimbrialis is abundant, Cledeobia angustalis somewhat scarce, and Aglossa cuprealis very rare at Bram- ford and Whitton. The three Pyraustac are seldom met with. Ennychia octomaculalis has occurred singly at Stowmarket, and E. anguinalis near Tuddenham, while Diasemia literalis has but once turned up in the former locality. All the British Hydrocampidae are common, Acentropus niveus being frequently met with in the coast broads. The very rare Botys nuhilalis has been taken at Felixstowe by Gibbs. B. pandalis is doubtfully recorded from the county ; Ehulea verbascalis is rare at Ipswich and Brandon ; E. stachydalis at Bentley ; and Mr. Sparke has recently turned up Pionea margaritalis in some numbers upon one occasion at Tuddenham. Spilodes sticticalls is almost confined to the same district, but is abundant there. Mecyna polygonalis was once taken at Bury by Wratislaw in 1869 ; Scoparia Uneola is found at Brandon and on the coast ; and the following species are all local : — S. basistrigalis, crataegella, coarcta/is, ^nd pallida. Nineteen species of Pterophori are recorded ; the writer added Agdistes Bennettii to the list at light at Ipswich in 1895, and it has since been found to be not uncommon at Southwold and Hemley ; Platyptilia gonodadactyla is local, Aciptilia tetradactyla from Barton Mills, and Leioptilui osteodactyla is local at Ipswich. These last two are quite recent additions, as is also Mimaeuoptilus phaeodactylus from Felixstowe, and Leioptilus Lienigianus has been taken in several localities near the coast. Three species have recently been added to the eighteen Crambidae originally recorded from Suffolk : Crambus alpinellus from Hemley, C. sallnellus from Aldeburgh, and C. fascelinellus from Felixstowe ; the last is of special interest, as it was only previously known from Norfolk in the vicinity of Yarmouth. Our four Chilidae are all rare or local ; Sehaenabius gigantellus has been taken only at Needham Market and Santon Downham. The interesting Phycidae are well represented by twenty-nine kinds, but most of these are of rare occurrence. Anerastia Farrella was taken at Lowestoft lighthouse in 1840, but A, lotella is common at Felixstowe ; five species of Homaeosoma are all more or less scarce, the last addition being H. nimbella from Southwold ; Nyctigretes achatinella has been taken at Benacre and Felixstowe, and would appear not to be so rare as formerly ; Cryptoblabes bistriga, recorded from Woolpit,' has not since been noticed. Other species worthy of mention are Gymnancyla canella near Leiston, Phycis betulac at Copdock, and Dioryctria splendidella at Southwold.' The genus Rhodophaea includes seven species ; R. formosa, consociella, advtnalla, suavella, and tumidella are local ; but R. marmorea has only been taken at Aldeburgh ; and R. rubrotibiella at Brandon. Three species of Galleriidae are only too common, two of these feeding on the comb of the honey-bee and ruining the hives, but the rare and interesting Melanohlaptes bipumtanus has only been found at Felixstowe, where Mr. A. E. Gibbs took a nice series. Of the three beautiful species of Cymbidae, Halias prasinana may be seen and heard stridulating at Bentley and other woods ; H, quercana is local, and H. chlorana seems rare, and is only recorded from Ipswich and Beccles. TORTRICES The large genus Tortrix is well represented, and most of the species are common ; T. icterana is local, and T. crataegana, with T. diversana, have been but recently noticed, the former at Bentley and the latter at Hemley. Pcrone'a crhtana has but once occurred, near Ipswich ; and P. comparana and P. comar'tana have been lately added. Of the genus Penthina, the best are P. sellana from Tuddenham, Aldeburgh, and Southwold ; P. picana and P. praelongana at Bentley Woods, and P. fuligana at Aldeburgh ; the pretty Anthithesia salicella seems scarce, and Sptlonota neglectana is local. Of the genus Sericoris, the more uncommon are S. litoralis, conchana, and micana ; Mixodia ratzburghiana is found among Scotch fir. We have all the species of Orthotaenia, though none seem '£»/. Ann, 1866. ' Ent. Mo. Mag. Sept. 1891. 132